If building a large pontoon bridge does take some time, but building a small pontoon bridge can be completed within a few hours.

While the three major cavalry battalions launched an attack, the operation to build a floating bridge upstream of the Wuma River was quietly underway. A cavalry team of thousands of people had been waiting on the shore. They could immediately cross the river and pursue the remnants of the Sima Army when the pontoon bridge was completed.

Although the feeling of waiting was not good, the Bingzhou Army looked relaxed, because the news from the front confirmed that although a remnant of the Sima Army had luckily crossed the Wuma River, they had lost a large number of war horses. At this moment, their escape could only be carried out on foot. As long as the Bingzhou cavalry crossed the river and caught up with them, it would only take a moment.

The engineers of the Bingzhou Army were already trying their best to catch up with the progress. They sweated heavily and tried their best to build the floating bridge. Finally, nearly half an hour shortened from the normal time, and the floating bridge was successfully built.

After the pontoon bridge was completed, a team of thousands of cavalry passed by in a row and quickly reached the west bank of the Wuma River. They went south along the riverside, chasing the fleeing Sima army.

Although the Sima army walked a few hours in advance, the speed of the infantry's marching was simply not comparable to that of the cavalry. What's more, the Sima army, who had just completed crossing the river, was sleepy and exhausted, and had severely overdrawn physical strength. Without a slight slowdown, the speed could not be guaranteed at all. They would drag and stagger, and they could not walk a few miles in an hour.

Sima Zhao was worried at this moment. At this speed, he walked to Jiexiu's year of the Monkey and Horse Month! If there were no pursuers behind him, Sima Zhao would not have to worry, but the cavalry of the Bingzhou Army was behind him and might catch up at any time. With the current speed and condition of Sima Army, once he was caught up, he would be dead!

Sima Zhao rode on the horse and shouted loudly, ordering the soldiers to speed up their journey. When they encountered those who were negligent and procrastinating, Sima Zhao whipped over without hesitation and beaten them up.

In fact, we can't blame these soldiers for not exerting force. They are really sleepy and weak and unable to support them. No one knows that if they walk faster, they may have a chance to escape. If they walk slowly, they may lose their lives. But at this moment, their legs are like lead, and they can't even move.

Many soldiers fell to the ground while walking and could no longer get up.

Sima Zhao looked behind worriedly, and suddenly saw the dust and smoke flying in the distance, and was shocked. He was not unfamiliar with the stirring dust and smoke. It was a signal of the cavalry chasing. Although the scale of the dust and smoke was not too large, I guess the number of cavalry in Bingzhou would not be too large. However, with the current Sima army, the current situation of the Bing Army, the Bing Governor's cavalry did not need too many, and it was enough to kill them so that they would not be left behind.

Now the Sima army can only gather more than 300 cavalry, and the remaining more than 10,000 are walking. At the speed of infantry, they cannot escape the pursuit of the Bingzhou cavalry.

Sima Zhao gritted his teeth, discussed with Hu Fen and others, and decided to separate the infantry and cavalry, keep the more than 10,000 people behind and cut off the rear, and 300 cavalrymen evacuated first, which would ensure that at least 300 people broke through smoothly. If they continued to move forward in such a mixed manner, they would soon be caught up by the Bingzhou army.

In fact, none of them knew that leaving 10,000 infantry soldiers to cut off the rear would be death but not alive. But if they did not give up more than 10,000 people, none of the three hundred cavalry would be spared. Therefore, at the critical moment of life and death, they had to give up and give up.

The most difficult thing now is how to resettle Sima Yi. Sima Yi was seriously injured. Before that, the soldiers could only take turns carrying stretchers, and their speed could barely keep up with the large army.

But now Sima Zhao is preparing to break through with light cavalry, so Sima Yi must be allowed to ride a horse. Anyone else can give up, but Sima Yi cannot be left behind.

But now Sima Yi is so weak that he can't even sit up, let alone ride a horse. If he rides on the horse, he may fall off immediately. Sima Zhao is so anxious that he is spinning around. What should he do?

Zhong Hui thought of a solution, selected the best war horse and the best rider, and then fixed the saddle stirrup seized from the Bingzhou Army to a later position on the horse's back, let the rider sit in front of the saddle, helped Sima Yi to the saddle, and tied Sima Yi and the rider in front together with several cloth strips. Even Sima Yi's feet were tied to the stirrups.

In this way, Sima Yi would not fall off the horse's back.

Sima Zhao couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. It seems that at the critical moment, he still has to rely on Cao Liang's things to escape his life.

These three hundred cavalry were basically military officers above the commander and Sima Yi's personal soldiers. Those ordinary soldiers could only look at them with a glance.

Before leaving, Sima Zhao issued a final order to the more than 10,000 infantry soldiers, asking them to pick up their weapons and fight with the Bingzhou army to the end.

In fact, this order is a joke. Now all the people with strong status in Sima Jun have run away, leaving only those ordinary soldiers with low status, and let them continue to work hard for the Sima family. Why?

The soldiers were actually extremely angry. At the critical moment, all the officials ran away, not even a commander, and they were completely disorganized. What should they use to fight?

What's more, the 70,000 heroes led by Sima Yi personally suffered a crushing defeat. Now only these remaining defeated soldiers, who had no war horses, no armor, and even no weapons, could they be opponents of the Bingzhou Army?

"Let's surrender!" A Sima soldier angrily threw the weapon in his hand to the ground and shouted loudly that no one who was an official restrained them anymore. Even if he shouted the slogan of surrendering to the enemy, there would be no military law to punish them.

Sima Zhao and others rushed to survive. So Sima Bing, who was desperate and helpless, wanted to save his life. It was impossible to escape. Not to mention that they were exhausted, even if they were full of energy, they could not run away with four legs no matter what.

Then it is definitely not possible to survive now and continue to fight against the Bingzhou army. Only surrender is probably their only chance.

When they were escaping, no one had thought about surrender, but on the battlefield, war horses galloped, thousands of cavalry swept over, and they swept across everything in a mighty way. Whether they were resisting or intending to surrender, they were all involved in the iron hooves and trampled on them.

So it was not that Sima Bing did not want to surrender, but that they had no chance to surrender, so they were forced to cross the river to escape.

But now, there is no way to go.
Chapter completed!